The results of mitral valve repair for structural disease are durable and are generally accepted to be superior to mitral valve replacement. Following the early pioneering work of Carpentier ...

The device is positioned directly above the regurgitant jet and advanced across the mitral valve into the LV, with the two arms of the Clip perpendicular to the valve leaflets.

Matt was doing a final check of the car park before finishing his shift when he spotted what he thought was a pile of leaflets on the ground near the trolley bay. He went to pick it up and to his ...

2,3 SLT can present as hypo-attenuated leaflet thickening (HALT), which can be associated with reduced leaflet motion (RLM). The significance of SLT is unclear, and usually does not present with ...

myxomatous mitral valve with thickened leaflet, and mitral annular disjunction). The majority of patients had no, mild, or mild-to-moderate MR. Such an echocardiographic pattern was found in 96% of ...